Literacy - Science - Academy
Electracy - Entertainment - Internet
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Orality - attempts to understand the chaos of the present, does so through religion via church.
Literacy - attempts to control the present and past, does so through classifying the world via written language and preserving the past to dedicate civilization toward progressing past the past
Electracy - attempts to create new worlds (digital worlds, drug worlds, synthetic organic life) by way of technology.
Perhaps this is a means toward understanding how drugs might function in the present. Rather than adopting Caillois' edicts against them, can we see the growing use of designer drugs as a way for the average joe to create or spin a new reality out of the existing one?
Is it that much different for someone to walk around Downtown stoned than for someone to zip around on a skateboard listening to The Sound on an ipod? Both activities attempt to take our phenomenal reality and to manufacture a new world or reality within it. Both seem somewhat dangerous.
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